(NOTE: Wicca isn't Satanism and
Wiccans don't believe in Satan. Since I know this, thanks for not
emailing me and telling me what I already know.)

“[O]ur ancestors found it reasonable to assume that the divine power
behind creation was female. Monica Sjoo and Barbra Mor have said it
very succinctly: ‘God was female for at least the first 200,000 years
of human life on earth’. For Witches, God is still female. The Old
Religion, with its strong matrifocal[?] perspective, was a religion of
ecstasy” (Laurie Cabot, The Power of The Witch, pgs 23-24. The
implication is that Wicca is 200,000 years old!)

WHEN WOMEN RULED THE WORLD

Sounds like the title of a bad science fiction movie. (Actually, I
think it was, wasn't it???) Indeed, it is science
fiction...but many feminists and Neopagans accept it as science fact.

So the story goes...in Stone Age times the world was ruled by
matriarchies. Women ruled and did the things we would generally think
of men doing. They hunted and fished while the men were apparently stay
at home dads. The goddess was worshiped, and god was basically unknown,
or played a very small part in religion. Times were amazingly peaceful
and there were no wars. Then evil man took over, got rid of the
matriarchies, forced people to worship gods, and the world has been
screwed up ever since.

Of the many Pagan temples of the past, there was not one dedicated to a
being simply known as "The Goddess". Scholars acknowledge that the
Pagans of old were genuine polytheists...i.e., they worshiped many gods
and goddesses, believing each one was a distinct entity. They did not
believe in the "all gods are but one god and all goddesses are but one
goddess" idea of Wicca and most Neopagan religions. This idea is a
modern idea meant to simplify things, and was unknown to Pagans of
ancient times. Each god was in charge of his or own specialty. For
instance, Diana (Artemis to the Greeks) was a goddess of hunting and
childbirth. Venus (Aphrodite to the Greeks) was the goddess of love,
sewers, and V.D. The Pagans didn’t see Venus and Diana as simply "The
Goddess". In the 2nd Century A.D. there was an attempt to unite all
goddesses as simply "Isis" by Roman writer Apuleius, but his success
was very limited and short lived. The idea of a universal goddess was
made popular in part by Robert Graves’ book The White Goddess. Like the
current DaVinci Code controversy, the White Goddess is fiction that
many people rely on as fact.

Part of the problem in trying to have a rational discussion with
Neopagans about their religion is that they believe in a romanticized
history of ancient Paganism that isn't based in reality. For one thing,
they believe the ancient past was dominated by matriarchies (societies
ruled by women), sort of like the Amazon women's society in Greek
mythology, or in the Wonder Woman comic books. These European
"gynocentric" societies were egalitarian, peaceful, with little or no
social conflict, and the reason for this was because of the sexist
belief that a society run by women would be somehow better than a
society run by men. There was no gender discrimination or sexual
inequality. This myth has become so accepted as fact that at the U.N.
Fourth Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 there was featured a
full-size "reconstruction" of an "ancient matriarchal village," guarded
by a giant pair of female breasts, one above the other. It must have
looked like a village designed by Larry Flint!

Some of this stems in part from discoveries like those at Catal Hyuk,
Turkey In 1958, near the small town of Konya, archeologists discovered
a Neolithic settlement about 9,000-year-old agricultural settlement
that may have had up to 10,000 people at it's height. Based on scant
evidence, such as a figurines of a woman flanked by leopards, the
wishful archeologists flew to the conclusion that a Utopian matriarchy
had ruled there. No fortifications were found at the ruins of Catal
Hyuk, which archeologists misinterpreted to mean the society must have
been peace loving. The remains of the houses appeared to be nearly all
the same size. This implied in the mind of feminists and witch-ful
thinkers that surely, a Matriarchal egalitarian society of non-violent,
proto-Marxist goddess worshipers must have lived there. The place
became a sort of holy place to Neopagans and feminists, who actually
make "pilgrimages" there each year!

In reality, modern archeologists are concluding exactly what kind of
religion was practiced at Catal Hyuk. It may have been polytheistic,
animistic, or even monotheistic. Ronald Hutton concludes concerning the
religion of Catal Hyuk: "Despite this wealth of information, we have no
entry into the system of thought and worship which is represented. And
if we cannot find one at Catal Hyuk, where the images are so abundant,
what hope do we have elsewhere in the Neolithic?" (Stations of the Sun,
by Ronald Hutton, Pg 42).

Like all ideas of a human made Utopia, from Atlantis to El Dorado, this
one too seems to have never existed. "Despite what believers in
prehistoric matriarchy proclaim, women never ruled the Earth."
According to Cynthia Eller, archeologist and author of the book, The
Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory. She goes on to state in her book that
no serious archaeologist today thinks that these prehistoric cultures
were ever matriarchal. This is because new evidence found at Catal
Hyuk, and reinterpretation of old findings shatters the myth of the
matriarch never-never land. For one thing, the figurine found of the
nude leopard women have been determined to be children's toys of some
sort...not goddess idols or symbols of Turkish Amazons. One of these
was found in a grain bin...not the place you’d expect to find a sacred
object of worship. Strange worm looking figurines once thought to be
little goddess statues are now thought to be a sort of "voodoo doll",
meant to be used in spell casting of sort, possibly used in spells for
child birth. The fact that these little statues were only found in
garbage heaps seems to indicate they were of no lasting value, but
thrown away after the spell was cast. The statues were meant to
represent a particular person for whom the spell was being placed, not
a goddess. After all, would you throw an important religious object in
the garbage? Eve modern Wiccans have a similar practice of throwing
away or burying the leftover items used in a ritual (such as candle
stubs, ashes, etc.).

Catal Hyuk has become a sort of holy city of goddess worshipers.
Hundreds of feminists make the trek every year. In the 1950's, there
was a strong desire by archeologists with leftist leanings to paint
Catal Hyuk as a sort of Stone Age socialist Utopia, where all the
houses were the same size and there were no fortifications of any kind.
However in the 1990's, Ian Hodder, a Stanford University archaeologist,
began re-excavating Catal Hyuk using up-to-datetechniques
including isotopic analysis of the skeletons found in the graves. He
discovered the men had a diet rich in protein while the women ate
mostly veggies. This suggests the men were the hunters while the women
stayed home and raised the babies. Depictions previously thought to be
those of women in the artwork turned out to be those of animals. The
famous worm-looking "goddess of Warfendorf" idols are now thought to be
merely a disposable charm for childbirth (they are always found in
prehistoric garbage dumps, not the place you would place holy objects).
Other objects thought to be the representation of "the goddess" are now
thought to be merely dolls.

Excavations of similar sites in Turkey, Greece, and Southeastern Europe
that were of the same time period as Catal Hyuk yielded
remains of fortifications, maces, bones with dagger marks.
This means the Stone Age in Europe saw plenty of violence. It
was no peaceful Utopia.

The fact that the women were buried in the dirt floors inside the homes
at Catal Hyuk with the bodies of men found less often was originally
thought to mean men had less value than women. It is now determined to
be because men died away from home and women died at home, it wasn’t
because men were thought less of than women. Men doing such dangerous
things as hunting, fishing, making wars, and even trading resulted in
them dying away from home. The diets of the men and women seemed to be
inconsistent with "egalitarianism" too (as if a society where men are
valued less than women could somehow be considered "egalitarian"). The
men seemed to have a diet reach in meat, but the women seemed to have
eaten mostly vegetables. This suggests women weren’t treated as
superiors, or even equals, and apparently were subservient to the men.
This, and much more evidence has led archeologists and anthropologists
to conclude the matriarch theory of Catal Hyuk, to be completely
inaccurate.

We also have no written record of any kind from these Stone Age
cultures to prove their existence. There are no stone tablets, no
hieroglyphs of any kind. The earlier cave drawings seem definitely male
oriented, depicting animals and hunters. To combat this lack of
evidence, feminists have hatched a new theory, namely that reading and
writing is a "guy thing". Dr. Leonard Shlain suggests exactly this in
The Alphabet vs. The Goddess. According to Shlain, when logical
"left-brained" patriarchs invented writing, it doomed the intuitive,
"right-brained" goddess cultures. Give me a break! Using this same
logic, you could prove Smurfs once rules the earth in Stone Age times,
and the lack of writing only further proves it. The goddess myth is
hard to eradicate because scholars are reluctant to speak out against
goddess disinformation, for fear of being branded "anti-feminist." or
worse. So far, just a handful of books and articles to counter the
universal goddess/stone age matriarchy have been written.

But even when confronted with revised opinions by scientists that Catal
Hyuk, was not a matriarchy, or even woman oriented, Wiccans like for
instance Llewellyn author and Wiccan activist "Starhawk" say, "I
believe that there was an Old Religion that focused on the female, and
that the culture was roughly egalitarian." So in other words, "Don't
confuse me with facts, just tell me what I want to hear so I can
continue in my witch fantasy". This is the problem we face when telling
the real story of Wicca...people are not quick to give up their
cherished fantasies. I suppose if you go around saying you’re a witch
and calling yourself "Starhawk", reality isn’t your big thing, anyway.
People would rather have ridiculous names like "Druid Starfire Owlhead"
and so forth, and think they wield mystical powers than face reality.
If they want to do that, fine, but they shouldn’t accuse Christians of
killing 9,000,000 members of their religion when it didn’t happen that
way!

Another thing to consider when reviewing the ancient universal
matriarch myth is that even if a cult of goddess worshipers did
exist...so what? Wiccans insist that religions with goddesses are
indicators of a religion where a sole goddess was worshiped, but this
theory offers no proof. You could just as easily say these same
religions that worship gods harken back to a day a single god was
worshiped. The Shinto religion even has a goddess as it’s primary
deity, but Japan has never been a matriarchal society at any time! Even
today, it’s ruled by a male emperor as it has been for thousands of
years. It wasn’t even until Japan was briefly ruled by a Christian
named General Douglas MacArthur that women finally got the right to
vote in Japan in 1945!

Even though this "universal white goddess worship" never happened in
ancient times, Christianity, unlike Paganism, was a universal
fellowship. The word "catholic" after all means "universal". The
various Pagan religions, on the other hand, were characterized by
geographic location, cultural, and ethnic background (not unlike the
Wiccan and Neopagan "traditions"). Even though these Pagan religions
spread, they never had the spirit of universalism the Christianity was
able to bring. People in Rome for instance, might have worshiped
Mithra, a Persian god, but there was never a feeling of kinship between
the Persian Roman Mithra worshipers. This is probably because no other
religion taught the radical idea of equality. Even today the various
Wiccan "traditions" (if something not even a generation old can be
called a "tradition") are divided along ethnic and geographic lines
like Celtic, Welsh, Saxon, Scottish, Itallian, Egyptian, etc.

Hinduism and Women

Certainly the world's oldest Pagan religion, Hinduism, would be the
most tolerant of women right? Many "wymyn" reject "xtianity" because
they feel comfortable only in a religion with a goddess. But does
simply having a goddess make a religion more inviting to women? What
about Hinduism? Many Wiccans and Neopagans like to have statues of
Hindu deities on their altars. Some Wiccans even try to
9unsuccessfully) find a common link between Wicca and
Hinduism. But is Hinduism really a religion for women?

Not according to Indian feminist and author Genocide of Women
in Hinduism Sita Agarwal (who is not a Christian,
by the way). Hinduism is responsible for more deaths of women than
Nazism and Communism combined. "No other religion...slaughters
one-tenth of all women each generation except Hinduism. Indeed,
Brahmanism is nothing but the legitimized genocide of women.... The
Brahmin mass murder of 50 million female children in the 20th century
has thus been TEN TIMES more severe than the Jewish Holocaust . And the
killing continues." She also says, "Although this may sound
like some Christian or Muslim propaganda, it is not. I have backed up
my research with quotations from Vedic and Vaishnava scriptures, and
have shown that these religions, and nothing else, are the main
culprits behind the most anti-woman system the world has ever seen. Far
from being `enlightened' and `progressive', Brahmanism is in fact the
very fountain of the evils of sati, female infanticide, devadasism and
dowry."

Even though Hindus worship hundreds of goddesses, women are looked down
upon in Hindu culture, and always have been. This has not changed for
thousands of years. "Aryan women were severely punished with amputation
of ears and noses for even minor offenses, often by their own husbands.
The Brahmanic secular court and religious literature is full of such
instances ", says Sita

Along with genocide of women,
Hinduism has also encouraged child molestation of young girls, murder
of women by men without punishment...and even worse. I won't
describe here how Hindu men sometimes dispose of the bodies of the
wives they murder.

YOU CAN READ THE BOOK GENOCIDE OF WOMEN IN HINDUISM By Sita Agarwal
(who is a feminist and atheist) HERE AVAILABLE AS A FREE DOWNLOAD.

Feminist Urban Legends

Feminists need to re-examine many of the things they believe to be
true. Feminists often make that claim that the "rule of thumb" used to
mean that it was legal to beat your wife with a rod, so long as that
rod were no thicker than the husband's thumb. However, Christina Hoff
Sommers documents how the link between the phrase "rule of thumb" and
wifebeating is a feminist-inspired myth of recent vintage.
In her book "Who Stole Feminism" (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994,
p. 203) Sommers writes: ...The 'rule of thumb' story is an example of
revisionist history that feminists happily fell into believing. It
reinforces their perspective on society, and they tell it as a way of
winning converts to their angry creed...

According to Canadian folklorist Philip Hiscock, "The real explanation
of 'rule of thumb' is that it derives from wood workers... who knew
their trade so well they rarely or never fell back on the use of such
things as rulers. instead, they would measure things by, for example,
the length of their thumbs." Hiscock adds that the phrase came into
metaphorical use by the late seventeenth century. Hiscock could not
track the source of the idea that the term derives from a principle
governing wife beating, but he believes it is an example of 'modern
folklore' and compares it to other 'back-formed explanations.' such as
the claim asparagus comes from 'sparrow-grass' or that 'ring around the
rosy' is about the plague. "
The Animal Rescue Site

How Women's Rights Were Furthered Under Christianity and Languished
Under Paganism

Far from being a utopia for universal goddess worship, ancient Pagan
societies usually treated women no better than chattel. In Greco-Roman
culture, if a woman was raped, she was expected to kill herself from
brining shame to her family. Yes, you read that right. Women
were rarely given an education and seldom ventured out of
their homes after they were married. Christianity was really
the first great women's liberation. Christians taught that husbands
should be kind to their wives. The practice of killing a woman when her
husband died, known as "widow burning" was practiced in many ancient
Indo-European Pagan cultures. Christians banned this barbaric practice
in countries (including Rome) where it took root. By contrast, in Pagan
India, the practice continued until 1000 A.D. and beyond.

Rome, supposedly the most advanced of the ancient Pagan nations, was
far from non-violent. The heathen Romans were fascinated by the
gladiator games, and they were much more cruel than in the Russel Crowe
movie. The Pagans of "pre-xtian" Rome feasted their
eyes and ears on the sights and sounds of murder. The Coluseum, which
stands today as a testament to the barbarism that was Pagan Rome, was
the place of the execution of not only men but thousands of women as
well.

The Greek Pagan phiolosopher Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) too considered
women ‘defective’ human beings. He said women were ‘infertile males’.
“The female, since she is deficient in natural heat, is unable to
‘cook’ her menstrual fluid to the point of refinement, at which it
would become semen (i.e. ‘seed’). Therefore her only contribution to
the embryo is its matter and a ‘field’ in which it can grow”. Her
inability to produce semen is her deficiency.
He stated the reason why the
man dominates in society is his superior intelligence. Only the man is
a full human being. “The relationship between the male and the female
is by nature such that the male is higher, the female lower, that the
male rules and the female is ruled.”

During Pagan Roman rule, women did not enjoy equal status and rights
along with women. Roman law attributed to women very low status.
According to Roman family law, the husband was the absolute lord and
master.
The wife was the property of her husband and completely subjected to
his disposition. He could punish her in any way he liked.
As far as family property is concerned the wife herself did not own
anything. Everything she or her children inherited belonged to her
husband, including also the dowry which she brought with her to her
marriage.

In Pagan Roman under civil law, women's rights were very limited. The
reasons given in Roman law for restraining women’s rights are variously
described as ‘the weakness of her sex’ or ‘the stupidity of her sex’.
The context makes clear that the problem did not lie in women’s
physical weakness, but in what was perceived as her lack of sound
judgment and her inability to think logically.

Women could not hold any public offices.Women could not act in their
own person in court cases, making contracts, acting as witnesses, and
so on.Women were grouped with minors, slaves, convicted criminals and
persons who were dumb and mute; that is, with people whose judgment
could not be trusted.

Keep in mind, these were the same Pagans who worshiped godess idols
like Diana and Hertha. When "wymyn" try to look to the Pagan past for a
feminist utopia, they are really looking into imagintion, for such a
place never existed.

According to author Peter Berresford Ellis to mark the gand opening of
this death factory in circa 80 A.D., a total of 9,000 animals were
killed in fights with men and women. The number of men and women
slaughtered that day is not known, but no doubt it was in the thousands
as well. In the early days of the Pagan Roman Empire 300 prisoners had
to fight to the death, and 1200 women and men were killed by wild
animals in a single day at the Circus Maximus. As a special feature
during this Pagan event, 20 girls were forced to have sex with wild
animals. It took the death of a Christian monk to finally put an end to
the gladiator games, when he was killed trying to stop such a
"game". The idea of ancients Pagans being enlightened,
peace-loving and somehow more tolerant of women is ridiculous!

In many Pagan cultures, women could not inherit property, and when
their husbands or male relatives died they were left destitute. This
changed under Christianty, and women could finally inherit property.
Women who had unwantd babies had no choice but to abandon them to
starve to death and die from exposure. Christianity changed all that,
stopping these practices and creating the first orphanages.

Rather than being objects for the pyre (which still goes on Pagan
India, even today), widows were treated kinder in the Christian era,
and were given alms rather than allowed to starve to death on the
street or become prostitutes. Early Christian writers make clear that
widows as a group held a place of considerable honor and dignity. Often
they are listed along with the bishop, elders, and deacons (e.g.,
Origen, Hom. in Luc. 17), and Tertullian calls them an "order" and says
that widows were assigned a place of honor within the assembled
congregation (On Modesty 13.4).

If women chose not to marry, they too could persue the scholarly life
of the monastary. The tradition of learned monastic women continued
into the medieval period. Lioba (eighth century), sister of St.
Boniface, "had been trained from infancy in the rudiments of grammar
and the study of the other liberal arts." "So great was her zeal for
reading that she discontinued it only for prayer or for the refreshment
of her body with food or sleep: the Scriptures were never out of her
hands." "She read with attention all the books of the Old and New
Testaments and learned by heart all the commandments of God. To these
she added by way of completion the writings of the Church Fathers, the
decrees of the Councils and the whole of ecclesiastical lawPrinces and
bishops, we are told, "often discussed spiritual matters and
ecclesiastical discipline with her"."(Life of St. Lioba, in The
Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany, ed. C. H. Talbot (London: Sheed
and Ward, 1954, 1981), p. 215.)

In Goddess We Trust?

"Goddess spirituality", a staple of the Neoapagn movement, is fast
becoming popular among New Agers and feminist. Wiccans and Neopagans in
general believe that there was a sort of world-wide ancient goddess
religion in Stone Age times. All of the cultures of the earth believed
that the earth was their mother, and was a "Triple Goddess" of "mother,
maiden, and crone", according to this view. In reality, this is not the
case, but these ideas have found their way into mainstream society.

Not every culture in ancient times viewed the earth as feminine. The
ancient Egyptians for instance, believed that the earth was a god, not
a goddess. The idea of the "triple goddess" originated in the 1945 book
The White Goddess by Robert Graves, and does not have a basis in fact.
At the begriming of the 20th century, some folklorists,
anthropologists, and others hatched an idea that all neolithic people
honored this "Universal Mother Goddess", They furthered contended that
this "Earth Mother" was the giver of life and the central figure in all
Neolithic (i.e., caveman) religion. After this, any feminine (or of an
undetermined gender) figurine, carving, doll, painting, or statue found
was immediately dubbed an example of this universal caveman goddess.
Andrew Fleming, in his 1969 article in World Archeology entitled The
Myth of the Mother Goddess, points out the simple fact that there is no
supporting proof for the assumptions that spirals or dots represented
eyes, that eyes, faces and genderless figures represented women, or
that female figures represented goddesses. Figures of women could
easily have been dolls, or have been used in sympathetic magic by women
who feared death in childbirth. A large neolithic settlement in Turkey
called Catalhoyuk has yielded an abundance of apparently religious
images, but even so it's impossible to tell whether its culture viewed
women as powerful, to be feared and honored, or as threatening, to be
feared and subordinated. Commenting on the so-called "Venus" figurines
found throughout Europe, Ronald Hutton writes:

"Egypt considered the earth to be male, earliest unequivocal evidence
of mother Goddess in late Sumerian texts, no clear evidence in Crete
before c. 2000 BC. In Egypt holding breasts was a female sign of grief,
so can not be considered as "obviously" significant of maternity or
fertility. Female figures could have been dolls (mostly female because
they were made mostly for girl children) or for sympathetic magic
(especially obstetrical). (Stations of The Sun, by Ronald Hutton pp.
37-38 ) In an article in World Archeology in 1969 concerning the
universal goddess theory, Archeologist Andrew Flemming pointed out the
simple fact that there was no way to prove that genderless figures were
female or that female figures were representations of this universal
goddess.

Even studying present-day primitive agricultural and hunter-gatherer
peoples is no help, for some are animists, monotheists, polytheists, or
a combination of these. Again, while it's entirely possible that some,
even many, prehistoric people revered an all-powerful Mother Goddess,
the evidence does not support the worship of a goddess being universal
throughout stone-age Europe.

IMPOSSIBILITIES

Neopaganism, and have managed to take the craziest of theories and
outright falsehoods and turn them into truth. In 1967 writer Elizabeth
Gould Davis produced the book, The First Sex. A book that’s
blatantly sexist, it claims that women
evolved first before men (which would be
scientifically impossible by anyone’s definition), and then men were
actually "mutants" from bad genes. One wonders how human women were
able to reproduce without human men...a medical impossibility! The book
states by the time men had come along, women had already created
everything worthwhile. When God Was A Woman was published in 1976 by
art historian Merlin Stone, and was equally as unscientific. Stone’s
book claims many ancient societies, including Egypt, were matriarchal
utopias. Stone invented the idea that the ancient Hebrew priests must
have been Indo-Europeans and not Semites. Her basis for this is the
fact Hebrews were patriarchal. The reality is, Egyptians were
patriarchal as well, and both Egyptians and Jews are Semites. Stone
found it "ironic" that Nazis would end up exterminating Jews, since she
claims both were Aryans! Equally unscientific is her attempt to link
Hitler’s racist ideas to the ancient Hittites... because of the
similarities of the names! As unscholarly as these two books
are, they are often used in college campus "Women Studies". Your tax
dollars at work.

What Was The Oracle of
Delphi?

Modern day scholars have concluded the so-called Oracle of Delphi was
the result of neon gas rising up through a fissure in the ground. The
Oracles would inhale the gas until they hallucinated, and thus gave
their "predicitions". Sometimes the oracles inhaled too much gas and
died. So their was no mystic powers behind the oracle...it was the
equivalent to "huffing"! The accuacy of these predicitions isn't known,
because most of the people who consulted the Oracles came from
different cities or even different countries, and weren't heard from
again. No doubt it was about as accurate as asking a junking tripping
on the street to predict the future (in other words, it didn't work).
The Oracles reign of error finally ended when an earthquake hit delphi
shortly after the Christian era and the fissure was sealed.

“In the time of the matriarchies, the craft of wimmin [sic] was common
knowledge...the remnants of that knowledge are what we call
‘witchcraft’ today”. (Z.Budapest, The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries,
pg 11 The matriarchy theory, which has since been proven wrong, is part
of Wiccan lore - - inaccurate data paired with a hoax ! )

A Matter of Semantics

Wymyn leave behind the God of the Judeao-Christian religion, claiming
even though He may be considered a loving and merciful Heavenly Father
to Jews and Christians, there are times he was angry and vengeful. So
they ditch Him for the goddess. The goddess is kind and loving...well,
OK she has a darkside too, namely Hecate, Kali, and Lilith, among
others, but all that can be overlooked.

Or can it? How is it that God slaying the Egyptian army the Israelites
as they fled accros the Red Sea (because the Egyptians wanted to kill
them!) is unthinkably cruel, but Athena covered up to her waist in the
blood of her enemies somehow doesn't even matter???

It really boils down to a matter of Semantics. To goddess worshipping
wymyn, a loving father God can't be trusted because He's a man, a
loving mother goddess can be trusted, because she's a woman. This is
theological sexism.

Yes, the real reason some Women can't deal with worshipping
the Judeo-Christian God is really because of their own sexism. Here's
an example I read written by a Dianaic Wiccan online:

"I started to look around for a way to give praise for living which did
not involved [sic] what was to me then utter, reactionary poison: a
male diety. Sorry: can't do Christianity. Whups, not Buddhism either.
Hinduism? ay yi yi, no. Do you see? Any male power source simply
dragged me back into my despised Lamia [sexual predator]-like
existance, and I was determined not to go there any more. Give me a
Goddess. Let me find a Goddess to follow."
(SOURCE:http://www.iit.edu/~phillips/personal/philos/dianic.html)"
When reading about her life of sexual abuse by her own brothers and
father, and her emotional problems that resulted, it isn't hard to feel
sorry for her. It's sad that these women are so scarred emotionally
that they feel they can only find comfort in a self-made world devoid
of any positive male figures at all.

What wymyn who follow this path fail to realize is that their own deep
seated issues with men and anything masuline is really a symptom of
trauma, and giving into it isn't the way to get better. Goddess worship
enables a man-hater to simply keep hating, and tells her it's perfectly
normal to hate men, and that she's right, they're all evil. It's about
like teling alcholics they should drink all the booze they want, and
anyone who says otherwise is just a tea todoler who can't stand to see
them happy. Or it's like telling a paranoid person the CIA really is
out to get them, and they should wear tin foil hats to keep their minds
from being read. As in the case above, she isn't to blame at all for
being a sexual predator, a masculine deity is making her that way.

BOTTOM LINE: There's no gods or goddesses. Live your life, and be
happy.

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